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The Florida Division of Schooling (FDOE) – via Richard Corcoran, the Commissioner of Schooling – has filed an administrative grievance towards Leon County Faculties principal David Solz for participating in a sexual relationship with a married instructor who he supervised and for displaying preferential therapy to that instructor.
An administrative listening to has been set for July 28 & 29 in Tallahassee.
Solz and the instructor, Brooke Jahn, had been finally married.
The lawyer for the FDOE is Ron Weaver and Solz is represented by Stephen Webster. The DOAH decide is Gary Early.
The witness checklist by the petitioner and Solz is a who’s who of present LCS administrative officers, which incorporates Superintendent Rocky Hanna.
Others witnesses embrace Assistant Superintendent of Tutorial Providers Gillian Gregory, Assistant Superintendent of Human Sources Deana McAllister, Communications Coordinator Chris Petley, and Chief of Security, Safety and Emergency Administration John Hunkiar.
The petitioner and respondent witness lists are proven under.
The exhibit lists, additionally proven under, embrace statements from seven lecturers, six from Gilchrist and one from Fort Braden College.
The exhibit lists consists of e-mail from two present LCS Board members, Dee Dee Rasmussen and Alva Striplin.
The grievance, which was filed on September 5, 2019, states that throughout the 2017/2018 faculty 12 months Solz engaged in a sexual relationship with a married instructor who reported to Solz.
The grievance additionally alleges that Solz afforded the instructor with preferential therapy which included offering coaching not supplied or made obtainable to different lecturers, touring with the instructor to at the very least one faculty associated out of city journey, and stress-free the supervision of scholars within the lecturers class as in comparison with different lecturers.
The grievance states that the sanctions imposed might vary from a written reprimand to revoking the educator’s certificates.
Solz was changed as principal at Gilchrist Elementary in July 2018 lower than 24-hours after Tallahassee Reports revealed a narrative about an improper relationship between Solz and a married instructor.
Solz was then assigned to administrative duties at district headquarters by Superintendent Hanna and reprimanded for violating the state division of schooling’s ethics code.
In April 2019 Tallahassee Reports confirmed that officers from the Florida Division of Schooling Workplace of Skilled Follow Providers (PPS) had been at Gilchrist Elementary College interviewing lecturers concerning the matter associated to Solz.
TR reported that at the very least eight lecturers had been scheduled to be interviewed.
One 12 months later, throughout the July 9, 2019 LCS Board Assembly, the Board unanimously accepted the appointment of Solz as the brand new Astoria Park Elementary College principal.
Information present that Solz was notified two months later, on September 5, 2019 that possible trigger existed to justify sanctions for his actions as principal and an administrative grievance was filed on the identical day.
TR has requested for a remark from Superintendent Hanna and can replace story on the applicable time.
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